The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories by Angela Carter [U.S. FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

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The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories by Angela Carter 

U.S. FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1979] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; like new with some minor fading and minimal wear.  Price clipped front panel. 

Book itself is very good;  Cover is near mint with some extremely mild tanning to tips of cloth on spine.  Binding is flawless.  Inside reads like new with clean, bright and vibrant untoned pages.   One mild stain on exterior page edges, not visible while reading and some minor foxing isolated along top exterior page edges [see last photos.]


Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth.

In The Bloody Chamber - which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves - Carter spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Bluebeard," "Puss in Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast," giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.  - Bookshop Apocalypse